Abbas indignus et pullus semicoctus aneb Jindřich z Isernie hostem ve Strahovském klášteře

• Authors: Jan Slíva

Title variants

EN

Abbas indignus et pullus semicoctus. Henry of Isernia as a guest in the Strahov Monastery

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study deals with a short but little researched episode in the life of Henry of Isernia, an Italian master of ars dictaminis, who came to the court of King Ottokar II of Bohemia in the early 1270s. Henry’s letter collection contains nine letters relating to his temporary stay at the Premonstratensian monastery in Strahov. These letters are impressive, but hardly interpretable, historical sources, and are also the only ones describing the circumstances of the election of a new Abbot of Strahov that probably took place in 1274. The reliability and credibility of Henry’s sometimes exaggerated and emotionally charged narratives were assessed by comparing their historical and biographical content with existing documents and memorial sources, such as monastery necrologies and annals.

Keywords

EN

Henry of Isernia; Henricus de Isernia; Strahov Monastery; formulary; medieval letter collection

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-35
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Slíva

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic